Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi knows India and Britain as intimately as his own loin cloth. He distrusts the U.S., even though Indian newspapers are continually printing such appeals as that of the pro-Congress Delhi Evening National Call: "We appeal to President Roosevelt, and through him to the freedom-loving people of America, in the name of democracy to intercede and effect a settlement before it is too late...
...Delhi, sandy-haired Socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps...
...Wednesday morning the resolution had reached New Delhi. The Viceroy's Council met in the long, high-windowed council room, darkened against the glaring sun. What they would do was a foregone conclusion. The British Government of India does not possess the authority to commit Constitutional suicide; at best it could refer the decision to His Majesty's Government at London. This...
...Delhi nothing except muted headlines indicated that India was approaching a rendezvous with history. Heat-drugged, half-nude Indians still slept in the shade on sun-baked pavements or sprawled dozing on the grassy lawns of Government buildings and homes of pukka sahibs. From miles away bright British flags could be seen snapping in the north wind above the copper dome of the viceregal palace, as gayly and unconcernedly as if the British Government were not facing the most serious threat to its power since the Mutiny...
...came. His super-manful feats of surgery in the ensuing bloody weeks are well and widely known. When Burma was evacuated by the Allied forces, Dr. (now Major) Seagrave shared General Stilwell's terrible retreat into India. The following are excerpts from a letter which he wrote from Delhi to his wife, and which she sent to TIME...